...or your heap. IME reducing the mem frac often makes OOMs go away. UPDATE: From spark 1.6 apparently we will no longer need to play with these values, spark will determine them automatically. Similar to above but shuffle memory fraction. If your job doesn't need much shuffle memory then set it to a...

...andards, standards, standards! Using instance methods does not inhibit you from also using static methods, and vice versa. As long as there's reasoning behind the differentiation and it's standardised. There's nothing worse than looking over a business layer sprawling with different implementation m...

...Data: there. Other examples exist, such as length, which returns a CGFloat from UILayoutSupport but a NSUInteger from NSString.) Note: Since I wrote this, the macOS headers have been modified to return a NSFileHandle instead of an id. For initializers, it's more complicated. When you type this: -...

... has only a function, it could also have variables that are not accessible from the outside. Say: var obj = (function () { var value = 0; return { get: function () { return value; }, set: function (val) { value = val; } } })(); obj.set(20); obj.get(); => 20 etc. ...

...) a few times. Is there a more graceful way of travelling a few folders up from where the executing assembly resides? 10 An...

... I guess I don't fully understand your question. From what I understand, the problem you are having is that in iOS, Mobile Safari tries to prevent an iFrame from scrolling in the first place and forces a width upon it. Am I misunderstanding your problem? ...

...ence. I used it successfully in a personal project to identify the letter from an image such as this, you can find all the source for the OCR component of my application on github, here. share | i...

...got was to mark my class definition __declspec(dllexport), and when called from another class (outside that class's dll's boundaries), I of course got the my unresolved external error. Still, easy to forget when you're changing an internal helper class to a one accessible from elsewhere, so if you'r...

...ght solve our problem. Everything is now enclosed and can only be accessed from within our opening and closing braces. We have a function in a function... which is weird to look at, but totally legal. Only one problem. Our code doesn't work. Our userName variable is never echoed into the console! ...

...s and resources. This is not a trivial topic in Java, but here is a quote from Sun: synchronized methods enable a simple strategy for preventing thread interference and memory consistency errors: if an object is visible to more than one thread, all reads or writes to that object's var...